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Virtual Native SAN
Virtual Native SAN

The Virtual SAN is native version of KernSafe iSCSI SAN cross-platform which can work in the VMWare vSphere (ESX, ESXi) and Citrix XenServer host machine. It quickly brings the benefits are:
Build Hyper-Converged Infrastructure or high availability visualization server with only two servers (two nodes high availability).
Convert VMWare vSphere and Citrix XenServer into hyper converged servers, allows it can provide both compute and storage service.

Server Side:

· Citrix XenServer 5.0 and later.
· VMware ESX/ESXi 5.0 and later.
· x86, x64 based architecture.
· 1GB of free memory
· 30 MB of disk space for application data, more disk space for storage sharing.
· Ethernet connection

Client Side:

Software requires:
· Apple Mac OS X 10.7 and later with KernSafe iSCSI initiator
· Microsoft Windows 2000 or above, 32bit and 64bit (AMD64, EM64T and IA64), Microsoft iSCSI initiator
· Linux with kernel >= 2.6.16, open-iscsi
· Citrix XenServer
· VMware ESX Server/ESXi Server
· SUN Solaris 10, Open-iSCSI Initiator
· Novell NetWare 6.5 or above

Hardware requires:
· 750 MHz Intel Pentium III class processor
· 256 MB of RAM
· 30 MB of disk space for application data
· Ethernet connection